Jon Askonas ⏩🚀🏛️
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Politics @CatholicUniv | Senior Fellow at @joinFAI | 🇺🇸/acc
District of Columbia, USA
Joined February 2009
Join me on Jan. 31 for a conference on Generative AI and National Security at @CatholicUniv, sponsored by @LeidosInc. We have a cracker-jack roster of experts from AI start-ups, defense, and think tanks, exploring this game-changing technology.
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RT @JoinFAI: 🚨 New Episode🚨 Recently, @garrytan, CEO of @ycombinator came on the Dynamist to discuss the political outlook for startups wit…
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Metascience and replicability with RFK Jr., government modernization and digital transformation with Elon Musk at DOGE, unlocking energy and infrastructure investment with deregulation and NEPA rollback. Progress studies having a huge impact in the Trump admin!
RFK jr said he wants to spend about 20% of NIH’s budget on replication. Reproducibility is a well known challenge in research and NIH for sure but…that’s more than $9 billion a year on reproducibility, more than any one IC gets
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@rSanti97 @maxb____ @ThomasHochman @NatPurser @pahlkadot @elidourado @deanwball @oren_cass Fetterman has to be rising in the ranks.
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RT @JoinFAI: This week on the Dynamist, @SayreEvan and @JonAskonas co-host @garrytan Tan, CEO of @ycombinator to discuss the Little Tech…
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Astute comments from @g_shullenberger. Jaron Lanier is quite progressive and unconventional, but I was struck when, in conversation, he lamented the "dereliction of duty" towards tech by social conservatives. Hopefully that era is on its way out.
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RT @nwilliams030: Incredible piece by @JonAskonas & @famstudies on building technologies that help families, and why that framing helps us…
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RT @elidourado: One benefit of automating AI research is that AI people will have to find new jobs in other industries, and they will disco…
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I could not recommend this seminar, The Machine Has No Tradition, more highly. It has formed my thinking on technology’s pervasive influence on our culture—from the tools we develop to the way we think—more than any other resource.
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You can get caught up on the conversation on our project microsite (special shoutout to @JoinFAI 's amazing CTO for helping me get this running!). If you sign up here, you'll be the first to hear about some important follow-on events and releases.
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